(The agency posts a list of defendants and settlements on its Web site, www.ftc.gov).
Rebecca Hall, a student at London's South Bank University, headed the list of defendants in the case.
The list of defendants includes some of the most prominent firms on Wall Street, like Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial.
Topping the list of defendants is Kerry K. Killinger, the WaMu chief executive who was ousted in mid-September.
In April, J. P. Morgan, along with eight other banks, was added to a list of defendants in a shareholder lawsuit.
A millionaire power broker who was to go to trial on corruption charges alongside former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has been dropped from the list of defendants.
Mr. Berman said that the report had made it more likely that his firm would add Enron's outside law firm, Vinson & Elkins, to the list of defendants in two of the four suits it has filed.
Instead, 13 years of settlement talks followed, so in 1998, hoping to turn up the pressure, the Oneidas and the federal Justice Department moved to add the 20,000 landowners to the list of defendants.
The Saudis have been especially alarmed, the Americans say, because the list of defendants includes two of the most prominent members of the Saudi royal family: Prince Sultan bin Abdelaziz al-Saud, the defense minister, and Prince Turki bin Faisal, the former spy chief and the new Saudi ambassador to Britain.
His latest attacker is PlayMedia Systems, which today added MP3.com to the list of defendants cited in a lawsuit charging copyright violation of the MP3-player software code.
